Antiwork

Last week I was directly contacted thru Upwork, which I'm on, about services needed. I interviewed on MS Teams, and it seems a previous employee quit or got fired. They asked me about my skill sets, I'm fairly local which helps, and it seemed a fit. I asked about timelines and they wanted things pretty quick. So, the next day, Friday, I log on, awaiting insight. I also did research into the platform they used since I wasn't very familiar with. Kinda like asking an accountant who uses Quickbooks to learn Freshbooks, or Wordpress to learn Squarespace. (Personally, I think I should bill for that). I sent an email off saying I'll do my research, and send along any info & details as they come. I get a response saying they're working on it. 2pm comes, and I was done awaiting. I sent a nice email, saying I'll likely step…

Ohio unemployment compensation has been restructured to make it insanely hard to get benefits. I believe they are doing this to discourage people from obtaining benefits. As a union construction worker I have used ohio unemployment for the last 20 years while between projects. I have never had the issues that I have experienced over the last 15 weeks. First off was a extremely hard Identity verification process. If requiring a ID to vote is voter suppression then requiring a certified birth certificate, drivers license, w2s, proof off address and bank account verification is most definitely unemployment suppression. The second issue is supposedly the claims analyst are working from home so they have no access to any of your information they basically only have the ability to read to your unemployment correspondences not to help you address them. Then when you finally after several hours waiting on the phone they…

Thought this may be the best sub for this. I've just clocked into work. Been here for almost 5 years now and got a unofficial verbal warning from my manager. Our area manager had complained to him that I was late pretty much every day last week. However instead of asking why he simply said that I needed telling off for it. If he'd have asked why he'd have found out that my dad had just left hospital due to cancer and then the following day had a stroke. Planning on quitting soon anyway and sending a nice email to HR about all the issues they don't see.

Background: I’m temporarily living in a suburban area, & because I’ve lived in cities all my life, I don’t drive. This lowers the already the meager job opportunities in the area because I will have to take a lyft or Uber back and forth. I have an MA in literature from a prestigious university, 10 years of experience teaching — students from elementary to high school as well as 5 years at various universities. I decided to apply for a position at a tutoring center, and the director was excited to meet me because of”my experience.” In the interview, she tells me that I will get paid $14/hr, although she “likes to reward hard work” and there is a possibility for a raise…eventually. And she ca give me 20 hr/a week. I accepted because I feel desperate, only to realize later when I got home that I would end up…

Hi all, I will be attending a class in two weeks that is ceentered around a good work-life balance. Per this class, I am to come up with 3-4 questions (as broad as can be) that should be brought up in class. I am curious if anyone has any quick-minded or improtant questions that they would like to see answers to. ​ Extra info: I am a 24 year-old (birthday today actaully) Science Doctoral Student (Ph.D.) and the presenter is a professor that is in charge of post-doctoral admissions.

So I recently quit my terrible job (Sunday the 6th, yay!) and I get this in an email. 40 hours of accrued vacation will be paid out this week Your insurance will terminate 3/31/2022 A total of $139.08 will be deducted for insurance premiums to cover the remainder of the month You will be offer COBRA through the mail to extend your Medical, Dental and/or Vision benefits at a higher premium (watch for a plain white envelope) Life Ins and Critical Illness can be extended as well, if interested call CIGNA directly at 1-800-362-4462 We were able to collect all equipment issued except the metguards, so we will deduct $35 from this week’s check.  If you have them and return them, we would reimburse that $35.00 ​ Shouldn't I be able to cancel the insurance for this month? And get that money back? I tried looking on the DoL website…

They have never laid people off before. We did great sales numbers in Covid 2020 because of Historic rates and many people were trying to refi. 2021 was so so in sales. 2022 we are now not doing good in sales (compared to 2020) we literally harass our customers asking them if they wanna buy a house, we cal and e-mail them everyday for months because we can offer $1,000 off…. Sorry billion dollar company, no one wants to buy a house or refi with the market how it is, even with the 1,000 off buying a house and refi is not ideal right now. So my company decides to fire customer service agents and sales agents because of this. Then in the same email at the end, they brag about what our company stands for and we are ethical and reliable we are, then proceeds to brag how we…

I worked a remote part-time temporary contract job as a program assistant between undergrad and graduate school where the hours ranged from 5-20 each week. When they hired me they said it was okay to have other part time jobs since the PA hours were flexible and the work could be done whenever. So I got another part-time job working as a teaching aid part time, and when my PA supervisor checked my time sheets and saw that there were certain hours of the day I didn’t clock time, figured out I was working another job, and got upset that I wasn’t always available to answer emails immediately or whatever. Told me they hadn’t given me permission to get an actual other job and just thought I should temp teach (which would still mean I couldn’t answer/work PA all the time, except now it would be random??), despite the fact…